Untitled
Date1970
MediumAcrylic and pencil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 44 × 55 3/4 inches (111.8 × 141.6 cm)
Framed: 45 × 57 × 1 1/4 inches (114.3 × 144.8 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ronald J. Strahan in memory of A. Aladar Marberger.
Object number2001.26.1
Copyright© The Artist, Courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New York.
The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextSylvia Plimack Mangold is an American artist born in New York City. She studied at Cooper Union and Yale University. Plimack Mangold entered the art scene when the art world was dominated by male artists dealing with Conceptualism and Minimalism. Plimack Mangold was able to find her own path using ordinary, almost mundane motifs as her source of inspiration.
From the late 1960s–70s, she began producing meticulous paintings of the wooden floors in her studio or other interior spaces. These allude to monochromatic painting, geometric abstraction, Minimalism, and Color Field or stain paintings that were the predominant movements at the time. But by placing paintings of floors on the wall, Plimack Mangold experiments with several new ideas: she calls attention to the object nature of painting; she welcomes the viewer’s presence as a participant, instead of just an observer; and she wryly comments on the common practice by certain male Minimalist artists of the time, like Carl Andre, who installed their works on the floors of galleries and museums instead of using the walls.
